Hello, On Sat, 17 May 2014, Walter Dnes wrote: >On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 01:21:08PM +0200, David Haller wrote >> The Linux text-console font is also very good. > > I used to do email and various other stuff on a VGA2 screen (640x480). >There are 5 lat1 consolefonts... > >/usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-08.psfu.gz [..] >/usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-16.psfu.gz [..] > Then video drivers came along that insisted on taking over text mode, >and running at native framebuffer resolution. I have a 1280x800 >notebook that would be perfectly legible with the screen kicked into >640x480 mode, and lat1-12 font selected. Unfortunately, the Intel >driver takes over and 1280x800 pixels text mode is barely legible 160 >columns x 50 rows. On some machines, it was possible to override things >and force 640x480 mode in consolemode at bootup. Unfortunately, that >forcing would also stick in X, where you do not want 640x480 pixels!!!
Hm. I've no idea about the intel-drivers, but nvidia plays nice with "nomodeset" or rather, I just use "vga=normal" on the kernel commandline. I do not have any graphics driver in the initrd, the nvidia module is loaded only as X gets started. Maybe that is the problem I have with newer driver versions (I use 295.49, any newer I tested just gives me a blank screen). I should try using nvidiafb again. > The consolefont program can select any available font. Question... >* Plan A) can I get 16-pixel wide lat1 consolefonts from somewhere? emerge terminus-font might help. E.g.: setfont ter-132n. But that seems to need a framebuffer, but you seem to have that ;) I like default8x16 better though. At least at vga=normal which gives me a nice 80x25 terminal ;) >* Plan B) is there free software around that can modify/tweak the > regular fonts to double their width? emerge psftools man -k psf HTH, -dnh -- An Emacs reference mug is what I want. It would hold ten gallons of coffee. -- Steve VanDevender